Expensive Watches, Apple phone Recovered From Chennai Man

Three expensive watches of worth Rs 2 lakh, an Apple iphone valued at Rs 65,000, two other cellphones and a costly dresses were recovered from a man who stole them from a posh mall

Chennai man was caught after the stolen of iphone and watch from mall.

The man was hiding in toilet and broke into the shops after their closure.

Chennai: Three expensive watches of worth Rs 2 lakh, an Apple iphone valued at Rs 65,000, two other cellphones and a costly dresses were recovered from a man who stole them from a posh mall here, hiding in toilet and breaking the shops after their closure.

Arun Sasi (33), a native of Kottayam in Kerala, was stole yesterday by a special team which scrutinised the CCTV footage from Express Avenue mall here, police said today.

Previous, managers of a retail showroom & a watch store had filed the complaints of dresses and an expensive wristwatches going missing from their shops, police said.

A video footage revealed that the same person had broken into both shops following which a enquiry was launched, police said, adding, that the IMEI numbers of the missing mobile phones were also traced, which led to the suspect.

Interrogation of Sasi revealed that he hid in toilets and to the other areas in the mall less frequented by others and later broke the shops using a set of tools, they said. Sasi was later remanded to custody.